Chapter Five: Encounter with Demidevimon
"Did you guys see that!?" Gomamon asked in shock.
"Yeah, it looked like some weird blue lightning!" Lillymon exclaimed.
"I hope no one got hurt..." Biyomon said worried.
"But what was it? Where'd it come from?" Gomamon questioned looking across to where there was a clearing a little way off where the Wise One sat.
"Special effects maybe?" Lillymon guessed.
"Somehow I don't think so." Biyomon replied looking toward the stage where the Wise One was. "The Wise One would've made an announcement if there was going to be any fireworks, don't you think?"
"You don't think someone got into a fight do you?" Lillymon asked her friends with anxiety. "Or worse... An assassination attempt!?"
"I don't think it was an assassination attempt, so don't worry about that." Gomamon replied soothingly. "If it was, the Wise One's Sages would be going ballistic."
"Besides, other than boredom, the Wise One looks fine." Biyomon chimed in. Lillymon sighed in relief.
"Well, whatever it was I hope it was the last of it- Ahh! There it is again!!" Lillymon shrieked in surprise.
"Jeez, for such a petite fairy you're heavy!" Gomamon replied holding the startled Lillymon. The flower fairy realized she was in the boys arms and let go of her death grip around his neck.
"It appears the Sages are regarding it this time..." Observed Biyomon.
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"You know you can really hurt someone with that!!" Demidevimon yelled dodging another one of Garurumon's Blue Blasters.
"Damn it!" Cursed Garurumon to himself. "If I get too close to the ceremony, someone besides him will get hurt!" He stopped, letting the feathered bowling ball get a little further ahead. "Better make this one count..."
He was about to let another ball of blue lighting fly high when something grabbed his arm. "What the!?" The teen looked up to see a hooded figure grasping his right wrist tightly. Suddenly he felt another hand grabbing his upper left arm in the same tight grip. His eyes widened as he saw Demidevimon enter overhead to the ceremony. "Let me go! The Wise One is in danger!"
"Yeah we know, you're the one causing it!" Came a gruff voice from his right.
"No! You got it wrong!" Garurumon stated panicked. The people restraining him weren't letting up, making Garurumon sigh. "Forgive me." He said as he lifted himself off the ground and then kicked his left foot into the person on his left. They let him go startled at the attack and bended over holding their aching ribs. With his left arm now free, Garurumon swung it over to the other person restraining him and chopped his neck. The guy fell down with a thud. He was knocked out.
"I'm sorry..." He whispered as he broke into a run again, leaving them behind. Distressed, the aching Sage sent a green energy ball into the air, alerting other Sages of turmoil...
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"Hey it's a distress signal!" Gomamon blurted.
"A distress signal? What for?" Lillymon asked following Gomamon's index finger to where a green energy ball shone in the sky.
"Obviously those blue lighting streaks were more then fireworks." Biyomon replied.
"I think we should go check it out!" Gomamon suggested. "Maybe there's something we can do to help."
"I don't know Gomamon, maybe we should just let the Wise One's Sages handle this." Biyomon said unsure.
"Aw, come on!" Gomamon grabbed Biyomon and Lillymon's hands and they pushed their way through the crowd toward the Wise One's stage.
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"A distress signal?" Angemon questioned the shining green ball of energy in the sky behind him. "Why is there a distress signal?" Angewomon turned around to her lagging companion.
"Are you stargazing again Angemon?"
"No, there's a distress signal." Angemon responded transfixed by its glow. Angewomon followed the handsome man's eyes up into the sky. She glared up at the ball of energy.
"Something isn't right..." She uttered.
"Should we go check it out then?" Angemon asked the cold beauty behind him. She was quiet for a moment before replying quietly,
"Yes, Wizardmon is there..." Angemon nodded his head understanding.
"Let's go."
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Garurumon was breathing hard as he chased Demidevimon back into the woods. They were merely going in a circle around the Wise One's stage and would end up behind it from the path they started the chase on. Garurumon jumped over a thick root sticking out of the ground and back onto the path leading from the pond to the back entrance of the ceremony. He landed in a crouching position and took a moment to regain his balance. He looked down the path to see they were only a mere twenty feet away from the ceremony back entrance, Demidevimon already half way down it.
"I don't have enough time to catch him..." Garurumon thought angrily. "And if I use my Blue Blaster I may hit someone..." He squeezed his eyes shut frustrated with the dilemma at hand. An attack could harm someone it wasn't intended to hit, which included the Wise One due to how close the path was to the stage.
"But it's a risk I'm going to have to take." The teen decided while powering up for his attack. He threw his hand back and felt the hot energy in his palm. "BLUE BLASTER!" He cried thrusting his hand forward and sending streaks of blue lighting flying at it's target.
Garurumon sprinted down the path just as his attack hit his target. Demidevimon dropped out of the sky onto the ground with a large thump.
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"What was that?!" Gennai asked looking in the direction the noise came from.
"I don't know." Replied a skeptical Wizardmon. Unexpectedly a round steal blue colored ball with wings sprang into the air.
"What the?!" Gennai questioned startled. The young Wise One looked up at the object. "It looks like a flying bowling ball!"
"BLUE BLASTER!" Came a cry from the path that headed to the pond. Three streaks of blue lighting emerged from the woods, hitting the bowling ball with wings. It soared through the air before landing into the crowd of frightened people.
Wizardmon and Gennai stood up on guard. "What's going on?" Gennai asked his advisor.
"I have no idea." Wizardmon replied.
"Sir! Here is the one who is disturbing the peace!" Came from one of the Sages. Gennai and Wizardmon looked down to where a teenager with white hair and purple tips was being restrained by two other Sages. He wasn't resisting in anyway, but kept a golden yellow eye on the ball with wings that was being examined by another Sage.
"LET GO OF ME!!" Screeched the bowling ball. Alarmed, the Sage who was holding him dropped him back on the ground. Wizardmon noted the boy being held captive tense. The teenager then shouted up to him,
"Sir! It's Demidevimon! He's come here to-"
"Shut up you stupid pest!!" Sneered the winged ball who now hovered in the air once again. "DEMI DART!" He shouted sending a dart-like needle at the teen.
The teen tried to move out of harms way, but the Sages wouldn't move with him, the end result was the dart grazing his right shoulder. The teen fell to his knees with a weak cry of pain. The Sages restraining him looked up at the dart throwing threat unsure of who the enemy was. The crowd of people were shocked, most of them were panicking and going every which way in hopes of escaping danger. The bat winged bowling ball turned the stage, revealing a little 'x' on his left cheek.
"It's him!" Gasped Gennai. "But what happened to him?" Wizardmon moved in front of Gennai with a glare on his face and staff in his hands.
"What brings you here Demidevimon?" He asked coldly.
"Aw, come on. Is this anyway to treat a relative?" Demidevimon asked hurt.
"So he is related to me..." Gennai thought disgusted.
"Isn't it obvious why I'm here? To celebrate the Wise One's crowning!"
"You're... only here..for treachery..." The kneeling teen strained to say.
"I thought you were out of submission! DEMI DART!" Another needle like dart flew at the teenager, but was intercepted by Wizardmon's staff. Wizardmon then pointed his staff up at offender and uttered,
"Magic box!" From the deep violet crystal ball atop of his staff came a violet laser the split into four different lasers encasing Demidevimon in a cube.
"Hey! What the!?" Demidevimon hollered in alarm. He tried to fly away from it, but every time he tried, he was zapped. "Let me out of this!" Wizardmon lowered the cube with his staff so they were eye level.
"Now, explain yourself." Wizardmon ordered.